New version of IMDb advanced title search launched

We are pleased to launch a new version of the IMDb advanced title search today. At the moment we have the same interface available at http://www.imdb.com/search/title with new software powering the results. In the long term we will be providing new, more powerful search options.

The new software is more up-to-date and more flexible than the old software. Our aim is to make the search results backwards compatible, so in theory, the only differences between the old and new search results should be an improved layout and more timely results. However, with millions of bookmarks and entry points to the new search, it was not possible to cover every combination in testing ahead of the launch, sorry.

We have already seen reports of some issues and we are working on these now. This thread will be used to gather all feedback and bug reports.

Please let us know here if you see anything unusual with the advance search results, thanks.

The option to browse titles for any given year by release date is up and running again.However, it won't allow you to browse any further than the first 200 pages (or 10,000 titles). After that, a "webpage doesn't exist" message comes up.

I could create detailed lists via using see all filters option. But it does not work anymore.
For Example I could create "Most Voted Feature Films Not In Your "ls058054547" List, Released 2016-01-01 Or Later With At Least 100 Votes and User Rating Between 7.0 and 10.0"
Why this feature disabled?

I could create detailed lists via using see all filters option. But it does not work anymore.
For Example I could create "Most Voted Feature Films Not In Your "ls058054547" List, Released 2016-01-01 Or Later With At Least 100 Votes and User Rating Between 7.0 and 10.0"
Why this feature disabled?

Thanks for taking out the writers of the over-detailed search results. That's an improvement. But the main problem since the new advanced title search started persists: when we search for movies in IMDb rating order the movies with the same rating are shown in popularity order. I want to know which 7.0 movie is closer to 7.1 and which is closer to 6.9. There is a great difference. If I look for movies in rating order I want to see all results in rating order. If I care about popularity I would search for the most popular movies. Thanks and sorry for my english.

Besides not showing the special achievement winners anymore, there is another Oscars bug in the new advanced search system: when we look for Oscar-nominated movies, the results don't show the movies that won all the Oscars for which they were nominated anymore. Ex.: if a movie was nominated for only one Oscar and it won, it won't appear in the results for Oscar-nominated movies. C'mon, when we look for Oscar-nominated movies we want results that show both Oscar-winners and Oscar-nominated movies, not only the movies that lost at least one Oscar. To understand even better what I'm saying, try search for the Oscar-winners and Oscar-nominated movies released in the year 1963. The italian movie Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Ieri, oggi, domani), which won the only Oscar for which it was nominated, will appear only in the Oscar-winner list. C'mon, to win an Oscar, first a movie must be nominated. And when I look for Oscar-nominated movies, that's exactly what I want: a list of all the Oscar nominated movies (including the 100% winners), not a list of movies that lost at least one Oscar. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which was nominated for 11 Oscars (almost a record), don't appear in the Oscar-nominated search results anymore, only because it won all of them. It doesn't make any sense. Thanks and sorry for my english.

From what I can tell, the IMDb technical staff wrote the query code for the new Advanced Title Search to only allows searches that can be directly created via the form. As such many of the tricks (or link hacks) that many of us have used over the years no longer work.

The exclamation point (also known as bang) "!" is the not operator for database searches in SQL (Structured Query Language). In effect our link hacks passed on that operator to the underlying query with the older version of the Advanced Search. The new version of the Advanced Search ignores these link hacks.

As an aside, the list (http://www.imdb.com/list/ls071894610/) is an empty title list. The above search returns all of the current titles in IMDb. In the older version of Advanced Search, the title of the search would have been:Most Popular Titles Not In Your "Empty Title List" List

Since I am not an IMDb staff member, what I've written above is an educated guess. A member of the IMDb technical staff or Col Needham would have to confirm or clarify what I have written. It would be very helpful if the IMDb technical staff would state whether they intend to update the Advanced Title Search form to support these kind of not queries and/or allow for some of the link hacks in the future.

"It would be very helpful if the IMDb technical staff would state whether
they intend to update the Advanced Title Search form to support these
kind of not queries and/or allow for some of the link hacks in the
future."

Dan, thank you for your help anyway, I understand you are not a staff member. About the report option, yes there is but I can't enter the Outlook server.So I use a laptop, Windows 7, Google Chrome, no corporate firewall.I started getting the 500 error just when the new version of advanced title search launched.When I log out, the search works fine. But when I log in, all the same 500 error.I also tried that on Internet Explorer, with same results.Later on, I'II check on another computer.

... When I log out, the search works fine.But when I log in, all the same 500 error. ...

George,

Since you've seen those errors only while you're logged-in, I wonder if there may be a technical problem involving your Watchlist specifically.

As a test, try removing "!watchlist," from the search URL. If the search then completes without errors, this would seem to indicate that the errors somehow relate to the use of your Watchlist in a search parameter. In that case, IMDb should be able to investigate to find the cause.

The link is working for us as the !watchlist refers to our watchlist and not to George's. I think Nobody is correct that the problem is George's Watchlist and removing the parameter from the link seems like a good idea and it will probably work that way. I had problems with my watchlist once after I deleted a whole lot of titles from it. There also may be a mix-up with the watchlist's index, Have you added any titles recently to your watchlist that may cause a problem there? Try to delete them and re-add them. Maybe there was a problem in saving them properly. Another reason I would think off may be adult tiles. I know there can be problems to make lists visible when they include pornography, but I am not sure if search results are affected to. I just tried to access your watchlist and saw that it's not possible to do so for everybody other than yourself, probably because you made it private. It's impossible to find the reason without seeing your watchlist, but I believe just like Nobody that the problem is located there.

The link is working for us as the !watchlist refers to our watchlist and not to George's. I think Nobody is correct that the problem is George's Watchlist and removing the parameter from the link seems like a good idea and it will probably work that way. I had problems with my watchlist once after I deleted a whole lot of titles from it. There also may be a mix-up with the watchlist's index, Have you added any titles recently to your watchlist that may cause a problem there? Try to delete them and re-add them. Maybe there was a problem in saving them properly. Another reason I would think off may be adult tiles. I know there can be problems to make lists visible when they include pornography, but I am not sure if search results are affected to. I just tried to access your watchlist and saw that it's not possible to do so for everybody other than yourself, probably because you made it private. It's impossible to find the reason without seeing your watchlist, but I believe just like Nobody that the problem is located there.

Hi, there. So, I came down to the same conclusion my self. The problem is in my watchlist. When I perform the search without the watchlist, there's no error.Well, there are no adult titles in my watchlist, but I suspect what it may be wrong. There are two titles, in the watchlist, that are not available anymore (merged or deleted, can't tell). It's not possible to remove these titles from the watchlist. When I try to edit the list, these 2 titles are not selectable (see screenshot). Any ideas?

Can you edit the list and save it? If they are not displayed in edit mode, then they may simply disappear this way. My guess is that it still may have to do with the index numbers that two numbers are basically missing now somewhere in the list. What is the number of the last title when you edit your watchlist? 9921 or 9923 or 9925? If you know what these two titles were or even better when you added them and where these missing numbers are, you can check for yourself for example for number 422 missing between 421 and 423. But if this was the case, I believe you also wouldn't be able to add titles or save your watchlist without an error message. I see you have almost 10k titles in your watchlist, so it's probably impossible for you to identify these two titles. imdb staff may be able to help hopefully.

These titles have been for a while in the list, I've edited it tens of times. Not possible to identify the 2 titles. Also, I noticed that I can perform advanced searches with different parameters, including the watchlist, and it works. So, I guess something is wrong with the specific search.

But to reiterate the post from He He above:The akas site doesn't work, movie titles are still translated to foreign languages based on IP address / location. I see all titles in German, also on akas.imdb.com, which is quite annoying. I hope the imdb developers know about this bug!

Guys, had this new search for over a week now and still would like some indication whether the old display options for the compact view (ie no thumbnail and number of votes) will be returned as the display default for viewing (or even as an option).

It's been two weeks now and the problems (mine and the others I've been reading about) still haven't been fixed. It's very frustrating.Is anyone from IMDb even working on the problems? Or even reading this thread anymore?

New version of advanced title search is very frustrating to look. There is too much information about title, ratings and number of votes fonts are very small, i have trouble reading them. Why make things complicated if they can be simple?

Previous version was million times better and i'm hoping you will keep it or give us the option too choose between old and new version, just like reference view format.

I agree totally. This new version has wrecked a little movie tracking hobby I've been running every week for the last few years. Please give us access to the old interface that didn't show images in the compact view and enabled us to see the number of votes as well without having to drive into the rating.